The Romantic Legacy Of Paradise Lost

Author : Jonathon Shears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351882439

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The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost by Jonathon Shears Pdf

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without, Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the 'grain', of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic.

Author : Dr Britta Martens
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478874

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Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy by Dr Britta Martens Pdf

Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Britta Martens focuses on a corpus of relatively neglected poems in Browning's own voice in which he reflects on his poetry, his self-conceptualization and his place in the poetic tradition. She analyzes his work in relation to Romanticism, Victorian reactions to the Romantic legacy, and wider nineteenth-century changes in poetic taste, to argue that in these poems, as in his more frequently studied dramatic monologues, Browning deploys varied dramatic methods of self-representation, often critically and ironically exposing the biases and limitations of the seemingly authoritative speaker 'Browning'. The poems thus become devices for Browning's detached evaluation of his own and of others' poetics, an evaluation never fully explicit but presented with elusive economy for the astute reader to interpret. The confrontation between the personal authorial voice and the dramatic voice in these poems provides revealing insights into the poet's highly self-conscious, conflicted and sustained engagement with the Romantic tradition and the diversely challenging reader expectations that he faces in a post-Romantic age. As the Victorian most rigorous in his rejection of Romantic self-expression, Browning is a key transitional figure between the sharply antagonistic periods of Romanticism and Modernism. He is also, as Martens persuasively demonstrates, a poet of complex contradictions and an illuminating case study for addressing the perennial issues of voice, authorial authority and self-reference.

Author : Peter Cook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319967912

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The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens by Peter Cook Pdf

This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main aspects of Dickens’s debt to the Romantics. Through close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens’s novels, Peter Cook investigates how Dickens utilizes Romantic tropes to express his responses to the exponential growth of post-revolutionary industrial, technological culture and its effects on personal life and relationships. In this close study of Dickensian Romanticism, Cook demonstrates the enduring relevance of Dickens and the Romantics to contemporary culture.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1711
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:N11678720

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Paradise Lost by John Milton Pdf

Author : Joseph Crawford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781849664196

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Raising Milton's Ghost by Joseph Crawford Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why was Milton so important to the Romantics? How did 'Milton the Regicide', a man often regarded in his lifetime as a dangerous traitor and heretic, become 'the Sublime Milton'? The late eighteenth century saw a sudden and to date almost undocumented craze for all things Miltonic, the symptoms of which included the violation of his grave and the sale of his hair and bones as relics, the republication of all his works including his political tracts in unprecedented numbers, the appearance of the poet in the works, letters, dreams and visions of all the major British Romantic poets and even frequent reports of hauntings by his ghost. Drawing on the traditions of cultural, intellectual and bibliographic history as well as recent trends in literary scholarship on the romantic period, Joseph Crawford explores the dramatic shift in Milton's cultural status after 1790. He builds on a now significant literature on Milton's legacy to the Romantic poets, uncovering the cultural historical background against which the Romantics and their contemporaries encountered and interacted with Milton's reputation and works.

Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135455781

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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850 by Christopher John Murray Pdf

In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

Author : Paul Hammond,Blair Worden
Publisher : British Academy Original Paper
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215370607

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John Milton by Paul Hammond,Blair Worden Pdf

These essays lead the reader into the political and intellectual worlds within which John Milton wrote his verse and prose, and into the later worlds within which his reputation evolved and fluctuated. The illuminating and entertaining range of perspectives will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike.

Author : Robyn Donald
Publisher : Harlequin Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373116667

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Paradise Lost by Robyn Donald Pdf

Paradise Lost by Robyn Donald released on May 25, 1994 is available now for purchase.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775414834

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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722678

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Louis Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107029460

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The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost by Louis Schwartz Pdf

Short, accessible essays from fifteen recognized Milton specialists touching on the most important topics and themes in Paradise Lost.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195112210

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The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom Pdf

The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754062183854

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Lodore by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Pdf

Author : Alan Rawes,Jonathon Shears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076002884695

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Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom by Alan Rawes,Jonathon Shears Pdf

Alan Rawes is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester --

Author : Kasey Michaels
Publisher : Kasey Michaels
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Legacy of the Rose by Kasey Michaels Pdf

With The Legacy of the Rose, Kasey Michaels has crafted a dark and dangerous world within the Regency, fraught with insanity and perverse desires. “You must read this novel. It’s heady and gutsy and altogether wonderful.” —Catherine Coulter When Lucien Tremaine rides off to war, it’s with the promise he’ll return to the life he leaves behind … to his loving parents, to his beloved fiancée. It is that promise, that dream of reunion, which brings him back to Tremaine Court, only to be plunged into a living nightmare. Wounded, sick and disillusioned, he flees his family home with only one thought clear in his mind. Revenge. That single thought — and one image, that of the infuriating grey-eyed woman who has witnessed his disgrace, seen him vulnerable, at the very nadir of his existence. Kate Harvey has lived her own nightmare, and can see her own heartbreak and shame reflected in the eyes of Lucien Tremaine. But that doesn’t mean she’ll grant his demand to leave him alone, not when danger threatens at Tremaine Court. Can she goad him into returning, and are her motives purely concern for those who live there … or is her heart telling her something her mind refuses to accept?